SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED CLEANING OF PARTS PRODUCED BY THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTER

• Main Authors: ERWIN RUIZ, HOOVER LINN C, RON E DUFORT, PATRICK J HOWE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 24.08.2017
• Subjects: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY; ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OFTHREE-DIMENSIONAL [3-D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVEAGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3-D PRINTING,STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; TRANSPORTING; WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of operating a cleaning system for removing support material from parts produced by a three-dimensional printer.SOLUTION: A cleaning method comprises: operating a cleaning system 10 to correlate data for features on a part located within a receptacle with st...